We Are: The Brooklyn Saints is a Surprising Portrait of Boyhood

We Are: The Brooklyn Saints is a Surprising Portrait of Boyhood

Esquire-Entertainment·2021-01-30 05:00

Considering Netflix's track record with football-focused sports docs (read: five seasons of watching grown men flip shit in Last Chance U), you'll probably be surprised to hear that the least interesting thing about We Are: The Brooklyn Saints is football. Football isn't even the most interesting competition we see in the show, which follows the on-and-off-field adventures of a Brooklyn youth football program. It's a middle-school robotics battle, where the 13U quarterback, Kenan, codes a miniature truck to pick up and put down blocks faster than his peers. (Netflix: give us an Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?-type series in the style of Last Chance U!)

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